hinkommen
[ˈhɪnˌkɔmən] verb B1- to go or travel somewhere and arrive (can refer to the journey, the arrival, or both) · Als wir hinkamen, hat es geregnet. When we went there, it was raining.
- to arrive at a situation (usually implying some negative condition) · Wo kämen wir hin, wenn jeder täte, was er will! Where would we be if everybody did what they want!· Wo sind wir nur hingekommen, dass sowas schon als normal gilt! What happened to us that such a thing is now considered normal!
- to manage, make do · Kommen wir damit hin? Can we make do with this?
- to be roughly right; to make sense · 1992, meinst du? Ja, das kommt hin. 1992, you say? Yeah, that seems about right.
Verb forms
- Infinitive
- hinkommen
- Present (er)
- kommt hin
- Präteritum (er)
- kam hin
- Perfekt (er)
- ist hingekommen
- Infinitive with zu
- hinzukommen
A strong or irregular verb: its stem changes in some forms, so learn its main forms by heart.
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